To unwrap polygons of a generated three-dimensional letter I implement an pdf-export that takes the distances between three ordered points in the 3D-space and applies trigonometric rules to calculate the angle between the first and second edge. With a series of transformations I draw each edge with the actual length and angle in 2D and close each triangle to get an printable two dimensional triangle-strip.

My favored material for inflatable structures would have been highly reflecting silver film. The one I tested is not suitable for welding though and wouldn’t be usable as screening surface neither.
Other plastics are easy to weld on the other hand. The process requires accuracy as there is no guidance on a common plastic welding machine…

End of November the first non-beta version of Processing (1.0) got released. With it I am using the latest version of Geomerative now (ref 19). Ricard Marxer was so kind as to provide additional functions for me so that I could translate some
fundamental functionality from my previous code.
The preceding versions have features though that I appreciate and that’s why I will keep working with them. Intersection works well and contours have no closure - essential aspects when line-drawing.

Font-metrics and -formatting seem still be some rare topics among programmers. I can apply kerning by bringing in the kerning-pair information out of the metrics file of a font. And I did some very basic alignment for body text that suits my needs. At the same time Christian Rieckoff was working on automatic line-breaking in java what might be worth a bookmark for future plans. (texone.org/?p=43)
Christian Rieckhoff educates at the UDK Berlin and held a Processing course on digital fabrication in Summer in which he provided some very helpful code examples.

http://www.pbs.org/art21/slideshow/popup.php?slide=1475#

Jenny Holzer’s medium is writing. Wheather it is street posters, LED, projections or everyday objects like T-shirts or cups.
The artist’s writings are truisms, sayings, various statements appearing as poetry-like phrases. But Holzer clearly distinguishes her art from poetry or literature in general because ‘it has to do with the demands of the medium on which I place it.’ By applying media that is commonly used in advertising she found a way to communicate explicit statements about society in a minimalistic manner and to question how those media affect information.
With Xenon light she is also able to create large environmental projections on buildings or landscapes.
Until New Year 2009 the Guggenheim in New York as well features Jenny Holzer’s work on the outstanding facade of the museum.
www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/on-view-now/for-the-guggenheim
An example of her usage of online media is ‘please change believes’ where you can edit and contribute truisms. adaweb.walkerart.org/project/holzer/cgi/pcb.cgi

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Today Marius Watz exhibited and talked in [DAM]Berlin Gallery.
Marius Watz is known for his work and teaching in generative art. His visual works use drawing machines, software implementations, large-scale projections or plastics. Moreover he curates Generator.x - ‘a conference and exhibition examining the current role of software and generative strategies in art and design.’ This platform is addressed to those using code as a mean of creative expression whereas his blog documents his activities such as the recent Workshop around Computational Typography (which will end on Thursday 27. Nov.) Here he also provides a list of links as references and resources to ease creating computational typography.

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A widow’s a whore’s child…
I set up a basic English-German dictionary for technical terms around typography.
Listing on www.nohiddenmessage.com/index.php?/terms